Solar feed-in tariffs in Victoria

• Highest all-day feed-in: 5c/kWh, on Origin Energy’s Origin Solar Boost - Oct'26 (Single Rate), anywhere in Victoria. Its supply charge is up to $1.38/day.
• Highest evening feed-in: 30c/kWh, on Flow Power’s Happy Hour, anywhere in Victoria. Its usage rates change every month. Its supply charge is up to $1.87/day.

Both count only plans any household can switch to, at a set rate the retailer publishes. The table further down also counts business plans, wholesale-priced plans, plans only some households can join and rates read from offer text, so its top rows can be higher.

A feed-in tariff is the rate your retailer pays you — in cents per kilowatt-hour — for electricity your rooftop solar sends to the grid. It appears as a credit on your bill. Feed-in rates are GST-free, so the rate you see is the rate you get.

Plans pay very different rates, and some pay different rates by time of day or up to a daily cap. Victoria used to guarantee a minimum feed-in tariff, but that ended on 1 July 2025 — so rates now run all the way down to zero, and some plans pay nothing at all in the middle of the day.

Victoria scrapped its minimum feed-in tariff on 1 July 2025. The Essential Services Commission (ESC) used to set one each year, but a change to the Electricity Industry Act 2000 ended that. Retailers now set their own feed-in rate, and the only limit is that it cannot be below zero — so a plan is allowed to pay you nothing for what you export.

As at 16 October 2026, the lowest non-zero all-day feed-in rate on any Victorian plan is 0.04c/kWh, and 46 plans pay exactly that. That is a fact about what retailers currently choose to pay, not a floor anyone guarantees. It can fall further, so it is worth re-checking the rate on your own plan rather than assuming a regulator is holding it up.

The ESC explains the change on its minimum feed-in tariff page (esc.vic.gov.au). The table below shows what each plan pays, read from the CDR feed.

Ranked by feed-in rate alone — this is not a ranking of the plans. A high feed-in often comes with higher usage rates or supply charges. The only ranking that matters is the one priced on your own usage.

This is the most the plan pays for export. It applies only up to a daily limit, or inside a set time window — outside that, the rate is lower and can be zero.

* Some retailers describe a rate or a credit only in the wording of their offer. Where a figure is marked with a *, we worked it out from that wording and still count it in the price — so the plan ranks on what it really pays. Check any marked figure with the retailer before you switch.

Rates are GST-free. The table lists the top 20 plans; the comparison tool shows every plan for your zone.

Feed-in only matters to the extent you export. A big feed-in rate on a plan with dearer usage rates can still cost you more overall — especially if you use most of your solar yourself.

The honest answer comes from your own half-hourly data: Nemity applies each plan’s feed-in rate to your actual export intervals, so the ranking you see is what each plan really pays and charges you — not an average household.

Compare plans on your own solar export →

The table above is generated from the same weekly snapshot the comparison tool runs on: the official AER Consumer Data Right (CDR) feed, the source that also powers Victorian Energy Compare. Nothing here is typed in by hand. When a retailer changes its feed-in rate, this page changes with the next refresh.

Rates change, and a retailer can re-file at any time. The figures on this page are exactly as current as the date at the top of it, and no more — the comparison itself always loads the latest plan data, so a figure there can be newer than one here. Confirm with the retailer before you switch.

New to the terms? The glossary explains feed-in tariffs, solar export, and the other words on this page.